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When you get the annoying pink marker in CA and one of the issues it warns you about, is that ‘the farm account should not be used for other services’ In my case, the scripted install had set the ‘Distributed Cache Service (Windows Service)’ to use the farm account as managed account. As the 2013 Central Admin is (or tries to be) helpful, it gives you the direct link to the: ‘Security’ – ‘General Security’ – ‘Configure Service Accounts’ and tells you to change it there.

To fix it, just click the link, find the service in the dropdown and select another Managed account in the lower dropdown. Then click ok…..but nooo…that one wont fly.
Changing the service account on this service cannot be done this way and has to be done using PowerShell…thats what you get back.

Well…after some short researching I found this to work ok: (first load the snapin, add-pssnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell)

I just got the word, SharePoint 2013 has been released for download on MSDN and Technet. This is true also for Office 2013, and a few other products…like Project 2013, Visio 2013, Lync 2013, Exchange 2013. The 15 Wave have hit us…
May the race begin, download…!!

TechNet and MSDN subscribers will find the bits there, Volume Agreement customers will find the bits in the normal Volume Lincensing download location.